Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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How to safely relocate your SAN
This tip details how to perform a smooth SAN relocation, saving everyone involved a great amount of time and aggravation.
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Really delete your data
Permanent data destruction is harder to achieve than you might think. Nexsan and Plasmon offer different approaches to tackle the problem.
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Go beyond SOX for business continuity
Achieving SOX compliance does not ensure business resilience or continuity. There are extra steps you should take to make sure that your business is protected.
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How to convince management to upgrade
Learn how to effectively convince your boss or other management of the need for an upgrade or technology acquisitions.
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Checklist: First steps for limiting your downtime
Keeping downtime to a minimum requires forethought, preparation and practice. This checklist covers what you need to do to win the downtime battle.
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Five tips for forecasting storage resource needs
Here are five ways to forecast your storage resource needs more accurately.
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The compliance payoffs for securing vulnerable informat
Kevin Beaver highlights several business needs associated with securing data at rest.
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Expanding the reach of disaster recovery
While you may have a disaster recovery plan in place for your business, it may not be sound for major catastrophes, like Hurricane Katrina. Learn how to expand the limits of your disaster plan.
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Dispelling myths: WAFS and remote backup
WAFS and remote backup can be mutually exclusive, but can also be complementary.
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20 SATA tips in 20 minutes
This tip offers a collection of expert responses to recent user questions about SATA.
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Understanding compliance: Beyond data protection
Data retention is only one part of regulatory compliance. For storage, compliance can be grouped into two focus areas: data management and governance.
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SATA II: What you should know
Learn more about SATA II, its features and how to leverage its capabilities for your storage environment.
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Blades shed disks, boot from SAN
Users resolve boot issues with diskless blades.
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Zoning 101: Why zone?
Zoning can offer a number of benefits for your SAN. This tip details the advantages of zoning and offers an explanation of the different methods. (This tip is part of our Storage 101 tip series....
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Optimizing tape restores
Every organization understands the need to backup data, but many do not actually backup with restorability in mind. This tip will help you solve tape restore problems by following a few simple guid...
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Creating LUNs
This tip explains the purpose of creating LUNs and details reasons for creating multiple LUNs.
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Choosing storage-over-distance network technology
Disaster recovery and remote backup programs rely on an efficient, cost-effective WAN. Learn which transport is best and the related implementation issues.
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Prioritize your backup
Prioritizing data to be included in backups is step one for disaster recovery planning.
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Tiered storage with SATA
Simply deploying low-cost storage doesn't always equal savings. Learn to calculate total cost of ownership (TCO) when planning tiered-storage system using lower-cost disk and save money.
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Migrate old files to cut disk costs
Data migration is an effective way cut costs. Find out what you can do to simplify the process and start saving now.
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Will erasure coding replace RAID?
Learn why the reliability of RAID technologies could be related to the increased use of erasure coding by both new and established storage vendors.
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PowerShell tutorial: Managing Windows Storage Spaces
This PowerShell tutorial shows users how to fully interact with Windows Storage Spaces, which will help them script the storage provisioning process.
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Five LUN management basics
IT expert Brien Posey discusses five fundamental ideas storage professionals must understand when dealing with LUN management.
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Five LUN storage questions for pros
Learn what expert Brien Posey has to say to storage administrators about five questions they have about LUN storage in their environments.